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King Edmund Ironside

April 2, 2015 By Medievalists.net

It was the early eleventh century and England was being overrun by Vikings

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Reconsidering Agatha, Wife of Eadward the Exile

January 11, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Edward the Exile/Edward Aetheling

The antecedents of Agatha, wife of Eadward the Exile and ancestress of Scottish and English monarchs since the twelfth century and their countless descendants in Europe and America, have been the subject of much dispute…

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The Danish attacks on London and Southwark in ‘1016’

January 28, 2013 By Medievalists.net

This incident has been fatally embroidered by many local historians, taking their cue from various sources, so that the popular accounts have distorted what was already a confusing set of events.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Aethelred The Unready, Anglo-Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Athelstan, Cnut, Denmark, Edmund Ironside/Edmund II, Eleventh Century, England, Heimskringla, London, Military History, Queen Emma, Sagas, Snorri Sturluson